1906] The cruciform brooches of Norway. ^39 



I.ogical questions. The grave alluded to 1 ) contained a cruciform brooch 

 (fig. 1.68) associated with a fragment of another brooch (fig. 169) 

 and some other antiquities. The fragment forms part of a brooch 

 of the same sort as fig. 159 and is probably from about the same 

 time. The cruciform brooch, on the contrary, is very peculiar. I 

 call attention to the slightly bent head-plate with concave under- 

 side ; to the side-knobs, now lost, but originally fixed up on the axis 

 of the spring-coil; to the neck and the nose of the animal-head 

 whose form is allied to some Danish antiquities, for instance the 

 bronze-mountings illustrated by dr. Muller, in „ Ordning af Dan- 

 marks Oldsager, Jernalderen" fig. 509. By all these features the 

 brooch is pointed out as a stranger among Norwegian antiquities, 

 though it does not sufficiently conform with any Danish brooch 

 known to prove that it was really made in Denmark. It is how- 

 ever marked by a strong influence from the peculiarities predominant 

 among the cruciform brooches in Denmark and, consequently, its 

 association with the fragment of a brooch, illustrated in fig. 169, 

 allows of no direct conclusion respecting the chronology of the 

 normal Norwegian forms. It affords a good indication as to the 

 principal difference between the contemporary brooches in Denmark 

 and those in the Scandinavian Peninsula. 2 ) 



4. Cruciform brooches contemporary with late brooches 



in relief. 



When passing to the finds dating from the 6th cent. we leave 

 with very few exceptions the early and middle forms of the cruci- 

 form brooches. A distinction ought nere to be made between finds 

 from the earher part and from the later part of the 6th cent.; it 

 seems very doubtful wether the cruciform brooches were actually 

 in use down to the end of the 6th cent, and one should in any 

 case expect to meet with two different stages of development within 

 this century. In continuation of the forms attributed to the time about 

 the year 500 we naturally find the culmination of the ornamental de- 



!) Stoveland, Holme pgd. Mandal. C. 8933—8950. Ab. 1878, p. 178, pl. 

 II, fig. 7 and 8 (0. Eygh: Undersøgelser paa en gvavplads fra ældre jernalder 

 paa Holme ved Mandal). 



2 ) A cruciform brooch of almost the same form is known from Sweden; 

 Stockholm Museum 6765: 7. (Locality unknown). 



